1. Teriyaki Flank Steak with Green Onions
2. unclear Leftover Night (choir)
3. Smoked Pulled Pork w/ Mustard Sauce w/ rolls w/ side salad Out
4. Island Marinade w/grilled chicken w/ Pineapple Fried Rice
5. Stuffed Shells with Sausage and Spinach
6. Breakfast Enchiladas with Ham and Peppers
7. Mom’s Chicken w/ Tomato-Basil Bread Pudding
I have a meal plan! Yay! It’s nice to get to plod along on it at a leisurely pace on Saturday before everyone else wakes up. And then after everyone else wakes up. Meal planning takes me a long time.
I started off my planning this week by picking out some cuts of meat from the freezer. I haven’t actually looked in the meat freezer for a while because Art has been selecting meats. I was surprised to see what a great dent we’ve made in our meat stores! It’s pretty impressive. I picked flank steak (meal 1) and pork shoulder (meal 3). When Art joined the land of the living he requested Italian sausage (meal 5).
After figuring out what to do with the meats I turned my two most recently acquired cookbooks and started looking through them. I picked the side in meal 7 from Weeknights with Giada. The other book, Cook Like a Rock Star, sadly yielded nothing I wanted to try. A lot of the dishes look good but when I read through the ingredients, they mostly seem like (recipes I wouldn’t want to make or couldn’t acquire the ingredients in order to make. It’s a pretty book, but I’m a bit disappointed in it.
From there I filled in the gaps with (recipes from my bookmarks and now it’s all good to go. Meal 2 is unclear because I’m having a minor procedure done on my sinuses that day and I have no idea at all what I’ll be up for when we get to dinnertime. We’ll play that night by ear. Edit: Sadly my procedure was rescheduled to next week.
I am sort of considering writing blurbs on cookbooks from time to time, but I’m not entirely sure how to go about it. I do know that I don’t want to do a full blown book review for each cookbook, so it would end up being more like a “thoughts and impressions” type of thing – perhaps with links to the (recipes that I had tried. I think that would work out well and I could always add to the posts as time went on. It might make sense to have a page with a hyperlinked list of the cookbooks I’ve babbled about.
In other news, I’ve been working hard to catch up with my backlog of blog posts. Since getting home from Nashville I’ve made 49 posts! I believe I’m as caught up as I’ll ever be. I have two (recipes left to post and then two random articles that are bouncing around in my head – one would be a post about my favorite kitchen tools and the other would be a post about restaurants we like in Southern Maryland.